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Gale, the God of Ambition, was beginning to suspect that the realities of divinity may not align with his expectations when Mystra came to him with an offer he found impossible to refuse.
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18 Apr 2026
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Nothing drives patrons into bar seats quite like bad news.
With the impending dread of Ketheric Thorm retaking his seat in Reithwin's council, Last Light is bustling to the brim. Happy hours are a hectic affair as is, but with Karlach's favourite patron missing and Aylin's chance encounter with a mysterious Selûnite, the ensuing chaos created is bound to change a couple fates.
A balanced multi-couple piece of fiction that can be read as a whole, or through the PoV chapters of either pairing [Shadowlach] or [Moonmaidens].
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09 Apr 2026
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Minthara saves Shadowheart's life and it changes both of them forever.
Not wall to wall grimdark (torture) porn, but it is Minthara being Minthara.
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08 Apr 2026
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From the moment Minthara walked into his office, Gale Dekarios should have known she was trouble. But the most affordable private detective on the Sword Coast can never say no to a pretty face, especially when it's been a while since he had a paying case. Now Gale is on the hunt for a missing dragonborn and a certain gemstone, in a city full of beautiful killers, corrupt politicians, and several of his exes. Forget it, kid: it's Baldur's Gate.
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24 Mar 2026
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Volo's Guide To Your Mother by LulaMillay
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games), Forgotten Realms (Roleplaying Game), Dungeons & Dragons (Roleplaying Game)
11 Feb 2026
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Volothamp Geddarm has a brand new guidebook out, and it's all about seducing Gale's mother.
Elminster, naturally, is there to keep him in line.Series
- Part 16 of Lula's Crack / Humor
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"You want to go down this road?" asked Shadowheart. "At least do it well. If you need a fake date who’s pretty, charming, and distracting for both yourself and others? Who won’t take it too seriously, but also won’t fuck it up by being embarrassed the entire time? You don’t ask me. You ask Astarion.”
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A year after their adventuring party officially disbanded to enjoy their fame and immense wealth to the full, tiefling wizard Rosalie (reluctantly) asks Astarion for some help with a large, fake-date, ex-girlfriend sized problem.
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- Part 4 of Rat Bastard Boi (BG3)
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Astarion knows her smile when she wants to steal away for a drink. They’ve shared enough clandestine bottles, all down the road to Baldur’s Gate for him to know this is something else—something wicked. Something for her goddess.
Shadowheart has a newfound purpose in life. Astarion wishes she didn't. Too late now.
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14 Jun 2025
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“Then, what is it you offer?”
The barkeep slid the requested wine up beside Astarion, and the pale stranger’s knowing smile returned. He leaned forward, closer now. When he reached past Astarion to fetch the glass, Astarion caught the otherworldly scent of his skin: earthy and herbal, but blue and scorched like the astral zephyr, as though what he had said about the planes was true. As the elf straightened, he paused for a moment, lingering at Astarion’s ear. He uttered a simple word: “Pleasure.”
Ten years after the defeat of the Absolute, Astarion haunts the streets of the Sword Coast like a ghost, alone, searching desperately for a cure to his undeath. While following the trail of a shadowy rumor, he meets a dark and mysterious man who reminds him of himself. With his fate hanging in the balance, he must decide whether to take this stranger’s hand and be led to a life new and strange. But—at what cost?
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12 Jun 2025
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After killing a clutch of goblins and coincidentally saving a bunch of tieflings, Astarion and Shadowheart share a bottle of wine and bit of gossip.
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23 May 2025
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falling grace by stolenglow (xlph) for char_and_ichor
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
08 May 2025
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"Darling," he says sardonically, "these are clearly a trap."
Roller skates, sarcasm, and soft kisses: a wager gone wrong turns into an evening gone right.
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23 May 2025
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Gale can’t determine if the sense of emptiness comes from his chest, his stomach, or somewhere lower. There’s something about the effortless way Astarion carries himself, confident and cocksure, that has an old flame sparking back to life. A hunger so altogether different, so long forgotten to him that it feels almost foreign when he first recognises it.
He watches. He wants.
They both know what it's like to never have enough.
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18 May 2025
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blade of grass by anecjotes (klickitats), klickitats
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
17 Aug 2025
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There’s something Jaheira’s not saying. “What happened to his last handler?” asks Gale.
“The last four, you mean?” The rueful curve of her smirk deepens the crow’s feet around her eyes. It makes her seem younger, somehow. “The first died. The second went missing. The last two quit. You’ll be fine.”
In a Faerûn where magic is slowly diminishing, disgraced former Chosen of Mystra Gale Dekarios survives in Baldur's Gate as a Harper alchemist, tending their greenhouses and nursing the Netherese orb in his chest—until his High Harper forces him into fieldwork.
His first assignment? A vampire spawn informant with a crooked touch, dreams of ruin and vengeance, and a hunger to rival his own.
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11 May 2025
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Astarion found himself watching Gale more than he was watching Dirty Dancing. He looked quite young to be getting divorced, he thought to himself. The gossip in him was dying to know the full story, but he knew full well that it would be really stupid to start prying into a practical stranger’s personal life.
As he was about to ask, because fuck it, he was probably never seeing this man again, Gale reached below his seat and grabbed a notebook and pen from a satchel. A satchel. The man was going on what amounted to a mid life crisis of a holiday (or, to be fairer to him, a third of a life crisis, because he looked to be about Astarion’s age), and he’d brought a satchel?!
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Lawyer Astarion Ancunín had a chance encounter with film professor Gale Dekarios on a flight to New York. And then another chance encounter at a bar. And when he found out he’s in the middle of a messy divorce, well, what was Astarion to do? Aside from sleep with him, which was obviously a given.
Astarion didn’t believe in love stories. But life had accidentally thrown him into one of his own.
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'What would the former Archduke Gortash be doing planting duskwood saplings in a public park?,' the former Archduke Gortash said instead. He had, in fact, just spent the past four hours planting duskwood saplings in a public park. 'Don't be ridiculous. It is merely a passing resemblance, and one I am not too fond of, given the circumstances.'
'Huh,' the man said. 'I suppose that does make sense: you poor fucker! Besides, they wouldn't let a dangerous madman like that back on the streets.'
'Yes, you would think so, wouldn't you,' Gortash said, mostly to himself.
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15 Mar 2025
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Phantasmal Psychology by positivejam for prince_of_fics
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
14 Feb 2024
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Lord Astarion holds grand masquerades that are attended by the finest of the Gate. He samples the populace like wine; finding a taste for fat blooded noblemen and soft academics. And he kills with impunity, now– once slitting a beggar’s throat who had kicked up dust on his finest boots.
So why does sad little Professor Dekarios still elude him so?
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08 Mar 2025
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Star lawyer Astarion Ancunín flames out of legal practice at the height of his career and retreats to a small coastal town to get his bearings, going from torts to tortes with the help of a new, eccentric friend.
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30 Jan 2025
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Five years later, Astarion is still in love with Gale. One day he finally gets the chance to demonstrate how much.
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26 Dec 2024
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The plane ticket arrives in a sleek, cream envelope, inscribed with his name and nothing else, written out in neat, precise block capitals.
Isn’t it better the Devil you know?
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18 Oct 2024
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The story goes like this:
In 1973, Armand met a beautiful boy and chased him around the world, until the boy finally stopped running and started loving him back.
In 1985, Armand erased all of the boy's memories, and let him go to live a normal human life.
In 2022, Armand was desperate and heartbroken enough to bind them together forever.That's the story... according to Armand, who can't string three words together without sneaking a gaslighting attempt in.
So yeah.
No.Or: Armand tells Daniel the "truth" about their relationship after '73. Daniel calls bullshit.
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08 Sep 2024
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A visiting knight has a problem with Bull. Bull doesn't care, Lavellan really does.
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03 Jul 2024